The Engineer 1881 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous
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Admiralty, Decision of, to Sell H.M.S.S. “Black Prince ” and “ Simoon,” 18
Admiralty and New Alloys, 24, 60, 114
Admiralty, New Vessels for the, 255
Advertisers and Replies to Advertisements, 1S6
Air Pumps and Condensers, Mr. C. Brown, 365
Alphabets, Modern, published by Mr. A. Fisher, 402
American Locomotives in Australia, 460
American Locomotives in England, 443
American Patents, Selected List of, 18, 36, 54, 72, 90, 108, 126, 144, 162, 180, 198, 216, 234, 252, 270, 288, 306, 324, 342, 378, 396, 450, 468
American Portable Engines, 231
American Salt Trade, 312
Animal Mechanics, 258
Argentine Republic as a Field for British Capital, Industry, Products, and Emigration, 114
“ Armathwaite,” Trial Trip of the S.S., 65
Armour-clad Vessels, Attack of, by Artillery, 308
Artillery Experiments at Dungeness and Shoeburyness, 262
Artillery, Submarine, 369
Ashwell, Mr. J. 31
Association, Iron Trades, Employers’, 46
Australian Colonies, Census Returns for, 54
Averaging Machine, 30
Awards at the Melbourne Exhibition, 390
Baling Press, Cotton, The Morse, 102
Barmouth, Drainage of, 338
BarranquiHa Water Supply, 118
Basic Process, 10
Battersea Bridge, 96
Bell, Mr. Alex. Graham, on Wheatstone’s Microphone, 11
Bessemer Process, The Basic, 272
Bessemer Process, Use of a Mechanical Agitator in, 271
Bessemer Steel Plant, with Special Reference to the Erimus Works, 327, 328
Billingsgate Market Extension, 330
Billingsgate Market and the Tower Bridge, 276
Blackburn Railway Collision, The, 118, 217
Blackheath Subsidences, The, 209, 240
Blasting in Mines, 373
Board of Trade and Land Boilers, 63
Board of Trade and Steam Boilers, 423
Boiler Explosion, 20
Boiler Explosion on Board the “ City of Rome,” 20
Boiler Explosion, Locomotive, 476
Boiler Inspection and the Liability Act, 172
Boiler, Vertical, Mr. Keable, 40
Boilers, Colliery, their Management, 118
Boilers and Feed-water Heaters, 427
Boilers Heated by Petroleum on the Caspian, 189
Boilers in Ironworks, 366
Boilers, Land, and the Board of Trade, 63
Boilers, Marine, 27
Boilers of the Steam-tug “ Game Cock, 112,120
Books Received, 11, 137, 280,461
Boring Heads Rough and Fine, Woolwich Arsenal, 274
Boulogne Harbour Works, 408
Brake, The Eames Duplex Automatic Vacuum, 281
Brake, Electric, M. Achard, 257
Brake, The Westinghouse, 424
Brakes, Continuous, 261, 282
Brakes, Diagrams for Calculating Efficiency of, &c., Westinghouse Brake Company (Supplement to The Engineer, September 16th, 1881)
Brakes v. Reversed Locomotives, 136
Brakes v. Reversed Locomotive Driving Wheels, 169
Brakes, Vacuum, 169, 186, 203, 240
Bramwell, Sir Fred., on the Steam Engine, 387, 438
Breweries, The Construction of, 434
Brewers’ Exhibition, 282
Brewery Plant, 94
Brewery Plant, Hythe, 209
Brewery, Sixty-quarter, Cape-hill, Birmingham, 296, 300 382, 383, 384
Brewery. Transverse Section and Plan of Thirty-five-quarter, 93, 95
Brewing in England, 93, 382
Brewing Exhibition, 300, 311
Bridge over the Douro, Proposed, 6, 25, 60, 79, 114
Bridge, Fitzroy, Rockhampton, Central Queensland 330, 332, 362, 364
Bridge, The Forth, 351, 36 372
Bridge over the Irwell, Salford, 455
Bridge Work for Indian State Railways, 354, 355
Bridge, The New Tay, 329, 330, 350, 353, 384, 386, 480
Bridges, Railway, Long Span, 315
Bristol Trade and Mining School, 132
British Association, The, 184
The Founding of, 145
The Association at York, 154
Economy of Metal in Conductors of Electricity, Sir W. Thomson, 291
On the Pressure of Wind upon a Fixed Plane Surface, Mr. Thomas Hawksley, 238
Section G, President’s Address, 168
Swan Incandescent Lamp, Mr. J. W. Swan, 229
British Workman, The, 82
Bronze Castings, 79
Brush Electric Light, The, 348
Buenos Ayres Exhibition, 60, 96, 169
Buffer Stops, Safety, Mr. A. A. Langley, 474
Calf Rock Lighthouse, The, 406
Canadian Storm Signals, 309
Canonbury Accident, The, 441
Canterbury Sewage Works, Pumping Engines, 437, 443
Cape-hill Sixty-quarter Brewery, 296, 300, 382, 383, 384
Capstan, Turnover Hydraulic, 58
Cars, Long, on English Railways, 420
Cartland and Sons, Messrs. James, at the Melbourne Exhibition, 65
Casting Railway Wheels, Mr. W. Tawcett, 346
Casting Shells. Apparatus for, Woolwich Arsenal, 275
Centre Grip Wheel, 113
Centrifugal Dresser, Mr. C. G. W. Kapler, Fig. 66, p. 2
Centrifugal Machine, Mr. J. Ellison, Fig. 65, p. 1
Centrifugal Machine, Messrs. Houghton and Co., Fig.
63, p. 1
Chaff Cutters, Theory v. Practice in, 24
Chain Link, Messrs. Hornsby, 56
Chesterfield under the Electric Light, 280
Chinese Government, War Material Ordered by, from Germany, 144
“ Charkieh,” The, Trial Trip of, 182, 240
Chronograph, M. Bianchi, 433
Chronograph, M, Marcel Deprez, 433
“ City of Rome,” Inman S.S., 209, 226, 245, 260, 263, 282, 309, 476
Clacton-on-Sea Waterworks, Opening of, 83
Clark and Webb Chain Brake and the Continuous
Brake Returns, 240
Clyde, Shipping on the, 72
Coal in America, 306
Coal, Average Consumption of, by Steamships with Compound Engines, 229
Coal, Boring for, near Goole, 439
Coal, Comparative Power of, 136
Coal, South Durham, its Heating Power, 164
Coal Wagon, Traction, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, 55
Coast Defences, Our, A Suggestion, 240
Coiling Machine, Woolwich Arsenal, 273
Cold-air Machines, 258. 330, 367, 390, 399, 439, 456, 473
Cold-air Machines, Dry, 282
Collieries, Electric Light in, 45
Colliers’ Wages, 316
Collingridge, Messrs. W. H. and L., Completion of their new Buildings, 169
Compressed Air upon Tramways, 343
Conductors of Electricity, Economy of Metal in, 291
Contractors’ Congress. The Libge, 117
Contracts, Colonial, 297
Contracts Open, 6 :—
Indian State Railways, Bridge Work for, 354, 355
Indian State Railways, Girders for, 134
Indian State Railways, Pot Sleepers, 335
Indian State Railways, Wheels and Axles for Wagons, 5ft. 6in. Gauge, 166, 167, 168
Conversion Tables for French and English Measures, No. II., Area. (Supplement to The Engineer, Nov. 4th, 1881)
Cooper’s Hill College, 62, 282
Copying Presses, Advice to those who use, 432
Corn Sugar Factory, Chicago Sugar Refining Company, 205
Coupling Shafting, Mr. T. R. Almond, 120
Cowper Stoves, 417
Crane, Locomotive Coaling, Grazi-Tsaritsin Railway, 382
Crane, Movable, Fig. 1, 37
Crusher for Mountainous Dietricts, Mr. Hall, 211
Cumberland Coal Trade, The, 352
Cunard Steamer Ser via,” The, 67, 345, 365
Current Indicators, Mr. Andrews, Paris Electrical
Exhibition, 361
De Bay, The S.S., 66, 164
Delesse Achille, 101
Dephosphorising Practice, On Current, 272
Derby Showyard, Map of (Supplement, July 8,1881), 20
Derwent Iron Company, The, 228
Desford Railway Accident, The, 351, 366
Destroyer, The, 442
Diaries, New, 443
Distilling Apparatus and Condensers, Volute, Mr. T.
J. Rayner, 184
Ditton Pumping Engines, 442, 453
Docks, New, in Brooklyn, 79
Docks of London, The, 258
Docks on the Thames, Dagenham Deep-water, 221, 222, 240
“ Doterel,” Loss of the, 189
Douro, Proposed Bridge over, 6, 25, 60, 79, 114
Draughtsmen in the United States, 445
Dredger, Single Bucket Dipper, Messrs. J. and G.
Rennie, 113
Dredging Plant, 99, 114
Driving, Belt, A Novel, 310
Drying Hay and Corn by Artificial Means, 136
Drying Machine, Centrifugal, Messrs. J. Shear and
Sons, 300
Duffield Bank Railway, 47, 48, 79
Durham Plate Trade, 136
Dust, Explosive Powers of, 83
Dynamo-elcctric Machines, Mr. Ball, 307
Dynamo Machine, Mr. Andrews, Paris Electrical Exhibition, 361
Dynamo Machine, Mr. Edison, Paris Electrical Exhibition, 325
Dynamo Machine, Mr. Giilcher, Paris Electrical Exhibition, 343
Dynamo Machine, Dr. Antonio Pacinotti, 293
Dynamo Machine and Lamps at the Paris Electrical
Exhibition, 192
Dynamometer, M. Napoli, 307
Dynamometer, Mr. F. J. Smith, 293
Dynamometer, A Transmission, 102
Eames Duplex Automatic Vacuum Brake, 281
Ehrhardt’s Portable Locomotive Weighing Apparatus, 20
Electric Block and Lock Switch System, Messrs. Saxby and Farmer, Paris Electrical Exhibition, 238
Electric Lamps, Efficiency of, 444
Electric Lamps, Efficiency of. Professors Ayrton and
Perry, Paris Electrical Exhibition, 379
Electric Light, The Brush, 348
Electric Light in Collieries, 45
Electric Light at the Great Northern Station, King’s
Cross, 136, 147, 152
Electric Lighting of Liverpool, 298, 334
Electric Lighting by Water-power, 245, 483
Electric Power, 189
Electric Railway, The Lichterfeld, 22, 23
Electric Railway Signals, Mr. Hodgson, Paris Electrical Exhibition, 239
Electrical Water Gauge, Mr. Julius Sax, 199
Electricity on Tramways. 207
Elevator, Grain, 74
Elm, Landslip at, 291
Elswick Ordnance and Engine Works, 37, 56, 57, 73, 77
Enfield, Small-arm Factory at, 236
Engine, An American Marine, 402, 404, 422, 425, 440, 444
Engine, 100-Horsc Power, Wannieck Koeppner Type, 472
Engine, Compound, Messrs. Galloway and Sons, 222, 224
Engine, Compound, Messrs. Lane and Reynolds, 483
Engine, Compound Mill, for Messrs. Rouse and Co., 80, 84
Engine, Compound Portable, Messrs. Richard Garrett and Sons, 41
Engine, Compound Stationary, Messrs. R. Garrett and Sons, 41
Engine Cylinders, Compound, Royal Agricultura
Society’s Show, 40
Engine, Gas, Mr. Clerk, Paris Electrical Exhibition
278, 281
Engine, Horizontal, Messrs. A. Shanks and Co., 40
Engine for Mines, Hydraulic Pumping and Hauling
Messrs. W. H. Bailey and Co., 462
Engine-room Artificers, R.N., 24, 60, 78, 96, 114, 203,
240, 258, 312
Engine, Tandem Compound, Messrs. Douglas and
Grant, 264
Engine Tender, Goods, Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail
way, 409, and Portfolio Drawing No. 124
Engine, Three-cylinder Compound, Messrs. Duncan and Stewart, 8, 11, 12
Engine, Traction, with Coupled Road Wheels, 186
Engine, Traction, with Coupled Road Wheels, Durham
Steam Cultivator Company, 148
Engine, Traction, 8-Horse Power, Messrs. Marshall and
Sons, 419
Engine, Vertical, for Driving Dynamo - electric Machine, Messrs. Ransomes, Head, and Jefferies, 211
Engine, Winding, No. 3, Silksworth Colliery, 46, and
Supplement, July 15th, 1881
Engineer, Suicide, of an, 255
Engineering College, New, 190
Engineering and Farming, 423
Engineering, Practical and Theoretical, 295, 366
Engineers, Civil v. Military, on Indian Public Works 481
Engineers for India, 279
Engineers in the Navy, 352
Engines, Balancing Portable, 453, 473
Engines, Bessemer Blowing, for Messrs. Steel, Tozer
and Hampton, 458, 461
Engines, Corliss Condensing and Non-condensing, Relative Economic Efficiencies of, 481
Engines and Boilers of the S.S. “ Virginian and Valen-cian,” 185, 188, 191, 202, 206, 242, 245
Engines, Compound, Improvements in, 438
Engines, Compound Portable, 81, 114
Engines, Compound Rotative Beam, with Low Lift
Pumps, Trials of, 420
Engines, Compound, S.S. “ City of Janeiro,” 402, 404
422, 425
Engines, Ditton, Initial Condensation, 473
Engines, English, 42
Engines, Four-cylinder, Twin Serew Yacht “ Water
Lily,” 310
Engines, Fuel, 405, 427
Engines, London, Brighton, and South Coast, 438
Engines, Marine, Mr. P. A. Lowon, 309
Engines, Marine, in Egypt, 356
Engines, Proportions of, 207
Engines, Mill, 9
Engines, Pumping, Canterbury Sewage Works. 437, 443
Engines, Steam, at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 39
Engines, Traction, with Coupled Wheels, 258
Engines, Winding, Silksworth Colliery {Supplement
July 15, 1881), 26, 46, 59
English Draughtsmen in the United States, 471
English and Foreign Armoured Defences, 333
Erimus Works, Bessemer Steel Plant at, 327, 328
Exall, Mr. William, 67
Exhibition, The Buenos Ayres, 60, 96, 169
Exhibition, Brewers’, 282
Exhibition, The Electrical, Paris, 156, 163
Exhibition, International Medical and Sanitary, 18
Exhibition, The Italian National, at Milan, 137, 147
Exhibition, A Marine, 209
Exhibition, Melbourne, Awards at, 82
Exhibition, The Milling, 1
Exhibition, Naval and Submarine, 424
Exhibition, Smoke Prevention, 451
Exhibition, Smoke Prevention, South Kensington, 451
Exhibition, The Wool, Crystal Palace, 19, 169
Explosion of Air Vessel at the Highgate Waterworks,
Fast Boat, A, 182
Faure Battery and the Electric Railway, 209
Faurc Secondary Battery, The, 20
Feed-water Heater and Filter for Stationary and
Locomotive Engines, 110, 132
Fe ixstowc Dock, The, 367
Fire Alarm Apparatus, Exchange Telegraph Co., 469
Fireproofing for Wood, 468
Fires in Theatres, 453
Fitzroy Bridge, Rockhampton, Central Queensland,
330, 332, 362, 364
Flanges, Locomotive, 474
Fletcher’s Solid Flame Cooking Apparatus, 83
Fore Carriage, Messrs. Ruston and Proctor, 415
Forth Bridge, The, 172, 351, 367, 372
French and English Measures, Conversion Tables for, No. II. Area (Supplement to The Engineer, Nov.
1881)
Fuel Economiser, Automatic, Mr. Prideaux, 257
Fuel Feeders, Messrs. J. and W. M‘Millan, 346
Gallery, Wrought Iron, New Town Hall, Reading, 3, 4, 5, 25, 60, 79
“ Game Cock,” Boilers of the Steamer, 112, 120
Garth Anchor, Chain and Ironworks, Cardiff, 258
Gas Burner, Dr. Siemens, Smoke Prevention Exhibition, 451
Gas Burner, Dr. Siemens. 451
Gas Detector, Mr. E. H. T. Liveing, 156
Gas Companies, Metropolitan and Suburban, 45
Gas Lighting, The Future of, 369
Gas, Lighting Passenger Vessels with, 209
Gas Managers, The Northern, 280
Girders for Indian State Railway, Contracts Open, 134, 138
Gold Losses, 203
Gold Losses and the Future of the Indian Mines, 96, 132
Gold Mining, 186, 312, 348
Governor, Marine, Messrs. Coutts and Adamson, 474
Great Eastern, The, 406
Great Eastern Railway New Goods Depdt, 150
Greenock, New Docks and Municipal Buildings at, 111
Grenade, Hand, 276
Gun Carriages, Application of Wrought Iron and
Steel to the Manufacture of, 274
Gun-cotton Sporting Powder, 438
Guns, Breech-loading and Armstrong Riband, 73, 77
Guns, New, 135
Guns, 80 and 100-ton. Committee Trials of, 316
Guy Fawkes Wanted, 82
Gwynne, Messrs. J. and H , Centrifugal Pump, 336
Hay Fork, Horse, Mr. T. Albertson, 470
Hematite Iron Trade, 334
Heywood, Survey of, 347
Hoist, Dr. Hopkinson, Paris Electrical Exhibition, 343
Hoist “ Jigger,” Fig. 2, p. 37
Horse-power, Nominal, 10
Horses and Electric Railways, 10
Hughes Induction Balance, The, and Gen. Garfield, 228
Hull and Barnsley Railway, 222
Hydraulic Apparatus, Preventing Water from Freezing in, 191
Hydraulic Machinery on Board Ship, 291
India, Coast Trade of, 226
Indian State Railway, Bridge Work for, 354, 355
Indian State Railways, Girders for, 134, 138
Indian State Railways, Pot Sleepers, 335
Indian State Railways, Wheels, Axles, and Axle-boxes, 166, 167, 168
Indicated Horse power from Diagrams, 240, 258, 282
Indicator, Messrs. Clark, Muiihead, and Co., Mr. C.
W. Winter, 293
Inman, Mr., 31
Inman Steamship “ City of Rome,” The, 260, 263, 282, 309
Institute of Great Britain, The Sanitary, 67, 346, 402 Institute, The Franklin, Journal of:
Corliss Condensing and Non-condensing Engines, their Relative Economic Efficiencies, Chief Engineer Isherwood, 481
Institute, The Iron and Steel, 83, 194, 272, 289 Application of Solid Steel to Small-arms, Projectiles, and Ordnance Manufacture, Mr. M. F. Gautier on, 275
Application of Wrought Iron and Steel to the Manufacture of Gun Carriages, Mr. H. J. Butter on, 274
Basic Bessemer Process, Herr Paul Kupelwieser on the, 272
Current Dephosphorising Practice, Mr. S. G.
Thomas and Mr. P. C. Gilchrist on, 272
Distribution of Elements in Steel Ingots, Mr. G. J. Snelus on, 271
Manufacture of Projectiles, Mr. J. Davidson on, 276 Manufacture of Steel and Steel Rails in the United States, Captain D. R. Jones on the, 271
Metallurgy and Manufacture of Modern British Ordnance, Captain Maitland on the, 273
Programme of the Autumn Meeting, 205
Use of a Mechanical Agitator in the Bessemer Process, Mr. W. D. Allen on the, 271
Visit to Newhaven Harbour Works, 290
Institution, Birkbeck Literary and Scientific, 236
Institution of Civil Engineers, 20, 255, 291, 355, 452 Conservancy of Rivers, The East Midland District of England, Mr. W. H. Wheeler. 438
Conservancy of Rivers, The River Irwell, Mr. A. Jacob, 438
Forces and Strains of Recoil Considered with Reference to the Elastic Field-gun Carriage, Mr. H. J. Butter, 402
Iron Permanent Way, Mr. C. Wood, 364
Premiums Awarded by, 355
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :—
Steel Castings, Mr. Frank W. Dick, 25
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 83, 117, 169, 204
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. E. A. Cowper, 91
Bessemer Steel Plant, with Special Reference to the Erimus Works, Mr. C. J. Copeland, 327
Compressed Air upon Tramways, Mr. Scott-Mon-critff, 343
Feed-water Heater and Filter for Stationary and Locomotive Engines, Mr. G. S. Strong, 110, 132
Iron and Steel as Constructive Materials for Ships, Mr. John Price, 110
Lead Processes. On some Recent Improvements in, Mr. Norman C. Cookson, 109
Newburn Steel Works, Visit to, 109
On the Marine Engine, Its Progress and Development, Mr. F. C. Marshall, 92
On Slipways, Mr. Wm. Boyd, 145, 146
On the Tyne, as connected with the History of Engineering, Mr. Lowthian Bell, 91
Palmer’s Shipbuilding and Ironworks, 109
Pi inting Machinery, On, Mr. John Jameson, 129,130, 131
Institution, Royal Artillery. Woolwich :—
Attack of Armour-clad Vessels by Artillery, Capt. C- Orde Browne, 308
Inventors and Inventions, 480
Inventors and Patents, 471
Ipswich Docks, New Entrance Lock, 173, 174
Iron. Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 12. 30, 49, 66, 84, 103, 120, 139, 156, 174, 193, 211, 230, 247, 264, 283, 300, 318, 337, 355, 373, 391, 409, 427, 445, 463, 484
Iron, Pig, Production of, 113
Iron, Pig, Restriction of Output of, 262
Iron Platforms, Strength of, 388
Iron Roofs, 402
Iron, Russian Sheet, 127
Iron and Steel as Constructive Materials for Ships, 110 Iron and Steel, Consumption of Power for Rolling, 200 Iron and Steel Trades, 'lhe West Cumberland, 425
Jarrow, Coble Done Docks, and North Shields. Map of, 110
“ Knowledge,” New Weekly Magazine, 367
Lakes Ontario and Erie, 370
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Competition for
Proposed New Station, Liverpool, 154
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Station, New,
Liverpool, 454, 455
Landslip at Elm, 204
Launch at Jarrow, 470
Launch at Middlesbrough, 476
Launch of the “ St. Ronans,” 219
Law and Clark’s Civil Engineering, 6, 25, 60, 85
Lead Mining, Northern, 460
Lead Processes, Recent Improvements in, 109
Leaders
American Locomotives in Australia, 460
American Locomotives in England, 443
Ancient Water Supply Works, 136
Artillery Experiments of Dungeness and Shoebury-ness, 262
Awards at the Melbourne Exhibition, 82
Barranquilla Water Supply, 118
Basic Process, The, 10
Blackheath Subsidences, The. 209
Board of Trade and Land Boilers, 63
Board of Trade and Steel Boilers, 423
Boiler Inspection and the Liability Act, 172
Brakes, Continuous, 261
Brakes, v. Reversed Locomotives, 136
Bramwell, Sir Frederick, on the Steam Engine, 387
British Workman, The, 82
Canada-Pacific Railway, The, 208
Canonbury Accident, the, 441
Cautious Scotch, The, 46
Channel Tunnel, The, 479
Chesterfield Under the Electric Light, 280
Civil v. Military Engineers on Indian Public Works, 481
Coal, Its Comparative Power, 136
Coast Trade of India, 226
Colliers’ Wages, 316
Colliery Boilers and their Management, 118
Colonial Contracts, 297
Combination of Manufactures, 387
Committee Trials of the 80 and 100-ton Guns, 316
Common Road Railways, 27
Competitive Tenders, 243, 459
Compound Portable Engines, 81
Coopers Hill College, 63
Cumberland Coal Trade, The, 352
Desford Railway Accident, The, 351
“Destroyer,” The, 442
Ditton Pumping Engines, The, 442
“ Dotterel,” Loss of the, 189
Dredging Plant, 99
Drying Hay and Corn by Artificial Means, 136
Durham Plate Trade, 136
Electric Light in Collieries. The, 45
Electric Light at the Great Northern Station, King’s-cross, 136
Electric Lighting of Liverpool, 298, 334
Electric Lighting by Water-power, 245
Electric Power, 189
Electricity on Tramways, 207
Engineering College, New, 190
Engineering and Farming, 423
Engineers for India, 279
Engineers in the Navy, 352
English and Foreign Armoured Defences, 333
English and French Navies, 171
Export of Rails, The, 370
Faure Battery and the Electric Light, 209
Forth Bridge, The, 172, 351
Fuel Engines, 405
Gas Lighting, The Future of, 369
Great Eastern, The, 406
Guy Fawkes Wanted, 82
Health of the French Navvy, 425
Hematite Iron Trade, The, 334
Horses and Electric Railways, 10
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 117
Inventors and Inventions, 480
Iron Platforms, Strength of, 388
Iron and Steel Institute, The, 279
Jubilee of Middlesbrough. 82
Lakes Ontario and Erie, 370
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Competition for
Proposed New Station Liverpool, 154
Libge Contractors’ Congress, 117
Lighting Passenger Vessels with Gas, 209
Livadia, The, 10
Locomotive Engine Economy, 479
Locomotive Improvement, 81
London Water Supply, 100
Long-span Railway Bridges, 315
. Madras Harbour Works, 441
Marine Boilers, 27
Marine Engine Proportions, 225
Marine Engines Past and Present, 243
Marine Exhibition, 209
Metalliferous Mines Bill, The, 64
Metropolitan and Suburban Gas Companies, 45
Middlesbrough, Industrial Progress of, 261
Mill Engines, 9
Naval and Submarine Exhibition, 424
New Guns, 135
Niagara Suspension Bridge, 136
Nominal Horse-power, 10
Northern Gas Managers, The, 280
. Northern Lead Mining, 460
Northern Railway Projects, The, 46
Oligarchical Government in Technical Institutions, 99
Palliser Gun Pressure Gauges, 46
Patent-office Fees, 10
Pig Iron, Restriction of Output of, 262
Port Clarence Salt Works, 226
Preventing Water from Freezing in Hydraulic
Apparatus, 191
Proportions of Marine Engines, 207
Puddlers’ Wages, 406
Pumps at Sea, 315
Queensland and Trans-Continental Railway, 244
Railway Collision at Blackburn, 118
Railway Rates on Iron and Iron-making Materials, 64
Railways in the Australias, 171
Railways and the Population, 209
Recoil, Experiments on Checking, 226
St. Gothard Tunnel, The, 460
Science and Engineering, 405
Self-created Troubles by Steam Power Users, 191
Severn Tunnel, 244
Sheaf-binding Trials at Derby, 153
Solent Tnnnel, 100
Steam on Common Roads, 225
S.S. City of Rome, 226
Steel Trade, Movement in the, 244
Steel v. Iron Cargo Ships, 135
Submarine Artillery, 369
Submarine Telegraphy, 480
Tay Bridge, The, 480
Tees, The River, 28
Tees Shipbuilders and Arbitration, 316
Tee^-side Water Supply, 28
Telephone Wires ovor Thoroughfares, 442
Town in Darkness, A, 262
Train Resistances, 297
Tunnel, Proposed, under the Thames, 442
United States Navy, The, 459
University Col'ege, Bristol, 83
University College, London, 10, 244
Vienna City Railways, 298, 389
Wages Sliding Scales, 100
Water Supply of Middlesborough, 46
Water Supply of Tees side, 180
West Cumberland Iron and Steel Trades, 425
West Hartlepool Ironworks, 172
Leaders {continued)—
Westinghouse Brake, The, 424
Wind Pressure on Railway Structures, 153
Yorkshire Line, A Proposed, 389
Length of the Metre, 391
Letters to the Editor
Admiralty, The, and New Alloys, Edw. Barry, 24
Admiralty, The, and New Alloys, J. Farquharson, 60
Admiralty, The, and New Alloys, J. Albert Muntz,
Admiralty, The, and New Alloys, P. M. Parsons, 24
Advertisers and Replies to Advertisements, J. R.
Laidler, 186
American Locomotive Head-light Lamps? W. G., 171
Animal Mechanics, Ybrow, 258
Argentine Republic as a Field for British Capital, Industry, Products, and Emigration, John Samson, 114
Arsenious Vapour? Disposal of, S. D. B., 423
Balancing Portable Machines. R, Bolton, 473
Balancing Portable Engines, Noel Chandler, 453
Battersea Bridge, C. Bruce Allen, 96
Billingsgate Market Extension, A. T. Walmisley, 330
Blackheath Subsidences, John Shaw, 244
Boilers and Feed-water Heaters, John Walley, 427
Boilers Heated by Petroleum on the Caspian Sea, H. B. Froom, 189
Boilers Heated with Rock Oil or Crude Petroleum ?
M. A., 135
Boilers in Ironworks, Cochran and Co., 366
Brakes, Continuous, A Traveller and Shareholder, 282
Brakes v. Reversed Locomotive Driving Wheels, A. Percival Heywood, 169
Brakes, Vacuum, Another Midland Driver, 204
Brakes, Vacuum, A Fourth Midland Driver, 244
Bramwell, Sir Fred., on the Steam Engine, David Mason, 438
Bridge over the Douro, Proposed, Henry A. Cutler, 60, 114
Bridge over the Douro, The Proposed, Henry Reilly, 6, 60
Bridge over the Douro, Proposed, A Common Five-eight, 25, 79
Bronze Castings, S. R., 79
Bronze Castings ? T. T., 63
Brush Electric Light, Hammond and Co., 348
Buenos Ayres Exhibition, The, A. Aldana, 60
Buenos Ayres Exhibition, John Hayes, 96
Buenos Ayres Exhibition, Enrique Urien, 169
Calver’s Wave Screen? Rarey, 405
Capsule Machinery? Merchants, 459
Chaff-cutters, Theory v. Practice in, W. A. Comber, 24
Channel Tunnel Scheme, Robt. Thos. Moore, 24
Channel Tunnel Scheme, Robt. Renton Gibbs, 24
“ City of Rome,” The, Bex, 282
Clark and Webb Chain Brake and the Continuous Brake Returns, J. N. Armitage, 244
Coffee Grinding and Roasting Machinery and Wine Filters? Coffee, 441
Cold-air Machines, J. J. Coleman, 258, 367, 399
Cold-air Machinery, J. W. de V. Galwey, 390
Cold-air Machines, James Hawley, 473
Cold-air Machines, T. B. Lightfoot, 330
Cold-air Machines, Octopus, 473
Cold-air Machines, Purchaser, 439
Cold-air Machines, John Sturgeon, 456
Cold-air Machines, J. Will. N. Galwey, 456
Cold Air Machines, Dry, J. and E. Hall, 282
Competitive Tenders, C. E., 294
Competitive Tender s, F. A., 456
Competitive Tenders, Contractor, 258
Competitive Tenders, Fair Play, 312
Compound Engines, Improvements in, Douglas and Grant, 438
Compound Portable Engines, Enquirer, 114
Condensed Milk? W. W., 315
Cooling Chills? J. H. 8., 9
Cooper’s Hill College, R. T. Mallet, 282
Cooper’s Hill College, Pew, 282
Corrugated Iron ? P. and M., 441
Cost of Chimneys? O. V., 81
Cotton Belting? W. S. and Co., 9
Cupola Practice ? Foundry Manager, 315
Cupola Practice ? Ironfounder, 297
Cupola Practice, Joshua Horne, 315, 333
Deep-water Docks at Dagenham, R. R. Bell and D.
Miller, 240
Density of Metals? W. B., 441
Desford Junction Accident, The, Clement E. Stretton, 366
Ditton Engines, The, John G. Mair, 453
Ditton Engines, The, Initial Condensation, John G.
Mair, 473
Docks of London, The, A. Johnson, Sec., 258
Draughtsmen in the U.S., A Returned Draughtsman, 445
Dredging Plant, Robt. Hadfield, 114
Driving Bands ? Round, R. A. P., 441
Duffield Bank Railway, Jas. Cleminson, 79
Early Steam Navigation on the Thames, 8. Darton, 348
Early Steam Navigation on the Thames, W. H. Prosser, 399
Efficiency of Electric Lamps, Henry F. Joel, 444
Efficiency of Turbines, Gilbert Gilkes and Co., 471
Efficiency of Turbines, Charles L. Hett, 171
Efficiency of Turbines, John Turnbull, jun., 471
Eider Down ? Eider Down, 479
Engine. 100-H.P., Wannieck-Koeppner Type, Arthur
Rigg, 472
Engine-room Artificers, C. C., 60, 96, 244
Engine-room Artificers, E. X., 60
Engine-room Artificers, Experience, 24, 78, 204, 258, 312
Engine-room Artificers, R. N., 114
Engine-room Artificers, R.N., Fitter, 204
Engine-room Artificers, W. L., 244
English Draughtsmen in the U.S., Y. R., 471
Euphrates Valley Railway ? A. S. E., 63
Expansion of Iron? L. J. B., 171
Felixstowe Dock, S. Lake and Co., 367
Forth Bridge, C., 367
Foundations of Mechanics, •$. 11., 366, 453
Fuel Engines, II. L. Muller, 427
Fuel-making Machinery, Patent, A., 27
Garth Anchor, Chain, and Ironworks, Cardiff, Alfred Palmer, 258
Gold Losses, Geo. T. Evans, 204
Gold Losses and the Future of the Indian Mines, G.
T. Evans, 132
Gold Losses and the Future of the Indian Mines, Alfred G. Lock, 96
Gold Mining, Geo. T. Evans, 348
Gun-cotton Sporting Powder, W. T. Reid, 438
Hand Shearing Machine and Wilson’s Shifting Spanner? Shearing, 189
Heat? A Problem in, Querist, 225
Heating by Hot Air ? G. C. L. C., 99, 135
High-speed Locomotives, E. J. W., 60
High-speed Steamships, C. G. Lundborg, 6
Indicated Horse-power from Diagrams, C. J. L., 244
Indicated Horse-power from Diagrams, J. C. S., 282
Indicated Horse-power from Diagrams, J. E., 258
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, The bilent Member, 169
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, A Non-Silent Member, 204, 240
Inventors and Patents, Edwd. Hoyle, 471
Jointing Cement for Cast Iron Tanks? Hampshire, 333
Jointing Cement for Cast Iron Tanks, G. Fred. Ransome, 351
Law and Clark’s “ Civil Engineering,” D. K. Clark, 60
Law and Clark’s Civil Engineering, Crosby Lockwood and Co., 6
Law and Clark's Civil Engineering, Henry Law, 25
Leffel Turbine, Thos. McKenzie and 8ons, 444
Length of the Metre, James Chesterman and Co., 348, 391
Length of the Metre, Uniformity, 366
Letters to the Editor (continued')—
Lime Kilns ? Calcium, 81
Lining Tins? Tin Can, 45
London, Brighton, and. South Coast Railway, Foundryman. 294
London, Brighton, and South Coast Engines, Foundryman, 438
Losses in Gold Mining, Quartz, 186
Low Tenders, A Driver, 79
Melbourne Exhibition, Awards at the, W. C. Kernot, 390
Millar, William Patrick, of Dawlinston ? L. M., 387
Milling? Books on, Novice, 279
Milling ? Books on, O’Madden, 351
Mineral Oil Fuel? An Old Subscriber, 297
Moy’s Boiler, Thomas Moy, 279
Muntz’s Metal and Naval Brass, J. Albert Muntz, 114
Naval Brass, Foundryman, 79
Naval Brass, Robt. Thomson, 79
Noiseless Road Wheels? F. G. R., 225
Non-Conductor, Wanted a, Richard G. Coke, 45
Non-Conductor, Wanted a, Founder, 9
Non-Conductor, A., Ybrow, 45
Non-Freezing Mixture for Hydraulic Presses and
Tools ? Constant Reader, 171
Notation of Reciprocal Diagrams, Alex. B. W. Kennedy, 24
Old Ireland Improved and Made New Ireland, J. P.
Doyle, 79
Oligarchical Government of Technical Institutions, M.I.C.E., 114
Oligarchical Government in Technical Institutes, Slag Ball, 132
Oligarchical Government in Technical Institutes,
Anothor M. Inst. C.E., 132
Oval Chucks ? J. B. F., 153
Our Coast Defences—A Suggestion, Rosicrucian, 244
Ovens for Annealing Small Iron Castings? J. S., 243
Packing Arrowroot ? Colonial, 441
Palliser Guns in the United States, C. A. W., 390
Paste for Mounting Tracings, R. A., 207
Patent Law Reform, Charles R. Simey, 312
Patent Law Reform, Sam. Worssam, 78, 330
Patents, Cheap, Edward Hoyle, 6
Patents, Cheap. Y. R., 6
Patents, Cheap, A Poor Man’s Plea for, A Poor Inventor, 25
Photographic Experiment with Swan’s Incandescent
Light, H. Baden Pritchard, 367
Pneumatic Clocks, C. A. Myerhofer, 204
Practical and Theoretical Engineering, C. G. E., 295
Practical and Theoretical Engineering, A Middle-aged Engineer, 366
Preventing Ships from Sinking, Engineer, 186 _
Price’s Retort Furnaces, Memb. I. and S. Institute, 294
Price’s Retort Furnaces, Wm. Price, 294, 330, 366
Price’s Retort Furnace, C. W. Siemens, 347
Prussiate of Potash Process? Inquirer, 153
Pumps at Sea, Carrick and Wardale, 347
Purifying Water? A. B., 261
Railway Gradients ? T. J. J., 315
Ramsbottom’s Safety Valves? Crux, 315
Reading Town Hall, Wrought Iron Gallery, Wm.
Parsey, 25
Reading Town Hall, Wrought Iron Gallery, M.I.S.I., 79
Reading Town Hall, Wrought Iron Gallery, M. am
Ende, 60
Redenbacher Turbine? The, B. F., 351
Retaining Walls ? A Student, 117
Rodger’s Jet Exhauster? G. S. H., 27
Sack and Bag-making Machinery ? W. and M., 99
Safety Valves, Billy Play Fair, 25
Safety Valves, W. C. Martyn, 79
Saint6’s Counters, G W. 8., 63
Saw Guards, E. R. Dale, 79
Science and Engineering, Practical, 423
Screw Propeller, Inventor of the,Thomas J. McGrow, 258
Sieves and Varnish? G. W. H., 441
Silksworth Colliery, The Uskside Co., 79
Slab Glass to Stand Sudden Changes of Tempera
ture ? E. B. E., 153
Slaughterhouse Fittings ? Merchants, 459
Small Coal as a Locomotive Fuel ? A Subscriber, 243
Smoke Consuming Apparatus? J. A., 153
Split Boss Propeller, The, John Hayes, 186
Steam Tramways, Merry weather and Sons, 114
Steel Castings, <1. H., 132
Steel v. Iron for Ships, John Price, 169
Steel Nails? Machinery for Making, W. S., 117
Steel Nutsand Set Screws? E. G. L., 261,
Strains on Crane Posts, R., 453
Strains on Crane Posts, Buster, 367
Strains on Crane Posts, W. B. Coventry, 439, 472
Strains on Crane Posts, Edward W. Farrell, 294
Strains on Crane Posts, Alfred Fyson, 295, 399
Strains on Crane Posts, H. W. Glasiei, 330
Strains on Crane Posts, H. S., 367
Strains on Crane Posts, H. A. Hoy, 294
Strains on Crane Posts, H. W. G., 295
Strains on Crane Posts, J. H. H., 295, 399
Strains on Crane Posts, C. G. Major, 294, 348, 427
453, 473
Strains on Crane Posts, A. C. Pain, 295
Strains on Crane Posts, Parallel Motion, 330
Strains on Crane Posts, Hamilton W. Pendred, 258, 348
Strains on Crane Posts, Q. E. D., 391, 453
Strains on Crane Posts, Louis Seguin, 294
Strains on Crane Posts, A Student, 439
Strains on Crane Posts, W. H. Tozer, 295
Strains on Crane Posts, W. M., 330
Strains on Crane Posts, Frederico de Vasconcellos, 399
Strength of Nuts, Helix, 96
Strength of Nuts, W. M. T., 96
Strength of Platforms, M. am Ende, 399
Strength of Platforms, T. A., 438
Strong’s Feedwater Heater, George G. Strong, 132
Stroudley’s Locomotives, W. Stroudley, 456
Systematic Mineralogy, H. Bauer man, 78
Tay Bridge, The New, Barlow and Sons, 405
Tay Bridge, The New, W. B. Thompson, 453
Telephone Wire with Gutta-percha, Covering, H. S.
441
Tempering Steel Tools, G. M., 225
Tempering Steel Tools ? Steel, 207
Traction Engines with Coupled Wheels, W. Johnson, 258
Traction Engines with Coupled Road .Wheels, Query, 186
Transit of Venus, C. Bruce Allen, 445
Trial Trips, F. A., 471
Undershot Wheels ? T. and Son, 153
Vacuum Brakes, A Constant Reader, 186
Vacuum Brakes, A Midland Driver, 169
Vacuum Brakes, Another Midland Driver, 186
Velocity and Momentum, H. Rolfe, 279,
Velocity and Momentum ? James Tomkins, 207
Velocity and Momentum ; Velocity, 189
Walton’s Wheel Scale ? A Subscriber, 261
Warming Railway Carriages, Henry Chapman, 391
Waste in Forges? Tipton, 479
Water Vortices? Aquarius, 479
Wind Pressure, A.M.I.C.E., 295
Wind Pressure, W. S., 312
Winding Engines—Protected and Non-protected
Cylinders, W. D., 333
Wire-drawing Machinery ? Pinbole, 261
Leyton, Essex, Sewage of, 474
Lichterfeld Electric Railway, The, 22, 23
Libge Contractors’ Congress, 117
Lighthouse, The Calf Rock, 4u6
Lighthouse, The New Eddystone, 426
Lighthouses, Life Among the, 199, 227
Limits to Speed, 417
Literature:—
Aid-bank to Engineering Enterprise Abroad, Ewing
Matheson, 64
Literature (continued)—
British Association Meeting at Swansea, Scientific Papers, and Full Report of the Meeting, 118
Complete Instructions for the Design of Spring and Other Safety Valves, &c., by Thomas Messenger, 136
Construction of Large Tunnel Shafts: Practical and Theoretical Essay, J. R. Watson Buck, 191
Criticisms od Stationary Steam Boilers, &c., by W. Morgan, 227
Darstellung des Eisens, und der Eisenfabrikate, by E. Japing Hartleben, 389
Diamants and Pierres Prdcieuses, Bijoux, Joyaux, and Orfdvreries, par Ed. Jennetaz, E. Fontenay, Em. Vanderheym et A. Coutance, 316
Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy, A. Privat Deschanal, 443
Elements of Plain Analytic Geometry, by George R. Biggs, 298
Elements of Plane Geometry, for the Use of Schools, Richard P. Wright, 406
Engineer’s Pocket Book, The, by W. Lees, 263
Handbook for Electrical Testing, H. R. Kempe, 154
History of Salt, by E. M. Boddy, 460
Hydraulic Steam and Hand-power Lifting and Pressing Machinery, Fred. Colyer, 481
Ingenieur Kalender, 1882, H. Fehland, 389
La Locomotiva, by Ollivetti E. S. Fadda, 209
Lathe Work: Practical Treatise on the Tools, Appliances, and Processes Employed in the Art of Turning, by Paul N. Hasluck, 11
Mechanical Engineer’s Office Book: Boiler Construction, by Nelson Foley, 280
Mechanical Industries Explained: Showing How Many Useful Arts are Practised, by Alexander Watt, 334
Memoirs of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vols. Ixv., Ixvi., 370
New Method of Graphic Statics Applied in the Construction of Wrought Iron Girders, E. Olander, 461
Practical Blow-pipe Assaying, George Attwood, 101
Practical Ventilation and Warming, &c., by Joseph Constantine, 262
Resources of South-West Virginia, C. R. Boyd, 118
Sewage Disposal, by J. Baily Denton, 100
Slide Valve, The, Practically Explained, by Joshua Rose, 245
Subject-matter Index to the Minutes of Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers, Vol. I., Iviii.. 870
Text-book of Systematic Mineralogy, Hillary Bauer-man, 28, 78
The Figure of the Earth, Introduction to Geodesy, Mansfield Merriman, 191
Treatise on Chemistry, H. E. Roscoe and C. Schor-lemmer, 425
Treatise on Ironfounding, by Claude Wylie, 227
Livadia, The, 10
Liverpool Elevated Railway, 476
Liverpool Landing Stage, The, 258
Liverpool, New North Docks at, 182
Liverpool, New Waterworks for, 65
Llansamlet, near Swansea, Tender, 28
Locomotive, Compound Tramway, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, 39, 44
Locomotive Coupling Rods, Strength of, 181
Locomotive Engine Economy, 479
Locomotive Improvement, 81
Locomotive Radial Tank, 47, 48
Locomotive, Tank, Dutch Rhenish Railway, 62 66 98, 101 ’
Locomotive for the Bombay, Baroda, and Central
Indian Railway, 219, 220, 246, 247
Locomotives, High-speed, 60
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 294
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company’s
Works, Brighton, 253
London Water Supply, 100
Loughborough Local Board, 356
Lubricator, Automatic, Mr. Cadman, 346
McDonald, Mr. Alexander, 334
Madras Harbour Works, 441
Mallet, Mr. Robert, 352, 371, 389
Manufacturers, The Combination of, 387
Map of Derby Showyard (Supplement July 8,1881), 20
Map of Jarrow, Coble Dene Docks and North Shields 110
Marine Engine, The, its Progress and Development, 92
Marine Engine Proportions, 225
Marine Boilers, 27
Marine Engines, Past and Present, 243
Market Harborough Sewerage, 345
Mashing Machine, Messrs. Whitlock and Smale, 300
Mason College, Birmingham, 74
Maudslay, Suns, and Field, Messrs., Lambeth Works of, 253
Mechanics, The Foundations of, W. R. Brown M A
235, 325, 366, 407, 433, 453 ’ ’ ’’
Melbourne Exhibition, Awards at the, 82, 390
Metalliferous Mines Bill, 64
Metallurgy and Manufacture of British Ordnance. On the, 273
Methanometer, Automatic, M. Denis Monnier, 256
Metre, Length of the, 348, 366, 391
Metropolitan Railway Company, Gasworks at
Neasden, 198
Microphone, Wheatstone’s, A Modification of, 11
Middlesbrough, Industrial Progress of, 261
Middlesbrough, Jubilee of, 82
Middlesbrough Water Supply, 46
Milan, Italian National Exhibition at, 137, 147
Mill Engines, 9
Mill, Low Grinding, Mr. Buchholz, Fig. 64, p. 1
Mill, Two Rolling, Mr. C. G. W. Kapler, Fig. 67, p. 2
Milling Exhibition, The, 1 1
Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom for 1880, 245
Miners’ Lamps, Mr. Jamieson, 156
Miners’ Lamps, Mr. Swan, 156
Miscellanea, 7, 21, 43, 61, 75, 97, 115, 133, 151, 165, 183
2991313>
Morse Cotton Baling Press, The, 102
Mortar Mixing Machine, Mr. R. R. Gubbins, 347
Muntz s Metal and Naval Brass, 114
Music, Turning over Leaves of, Apparatus for, Mr. R.
Ji. x act bury, 337
Naval Brass, 79,114
Naval and Submarine Exhibition, 424
Navies, English and French, 171
Naval Engineers’ Appointments, 18, 54, 104 112 132
155, 172, 210, 253, 282, 324, 336, 396, 420, 443 452 ’
Newburn Steel Works, 109
Newbury Sewerage Works, Mr. J. Anstie and Mr H
O. Baldry, 138
Newhall Water Supplv, Tender, 46
Newhaven Harbour Works, 290
New Zealand Railways, Increase in the Value of 162
Niagara Suspension Bridge, 136
Nominal Horse-Power, 10
North of England, 31, 49, 67, 85, 103, 121,139 157 175
^M8’265> 2831301> Notation of Reciprocal Diagrams, 24
Notes from Scotland, 12, 31, 49, t 7, 85, 103, 121, 140, 157, 175, 194, 212, 231, 248, 265,283,301, 319, 338, 356, 374, 392, 4'0. 428, 446, 464, 484
Notes from Lancashire, 12, 31, 49, 66, 84, 103, 120, 139, 157, 174, 193, 212, 230, 248, 265, 283, 301, 319,337, 356, 374, 391, 410, 427, 415, 464, 484
Notes and Memoranda, 7, 21, 43, 61, 75, 97, 115, 133, 151, 165, 183, 201, 223, 241, 259, 277, 299, 313, 331, 349, 363, 385, 403, 421, 435, 457, 477
Notices to Correspondents, 9, 27, 45, 63, 81, 99, 117, 135, 153, 171, 189, 207, 225, 243, 261, 279, 297, 315, 333 351, 369, 387, 405, 423, 441, 459, 479
Nuts, Strength of, 96
Obituary :—
Ashwell, Mr. James, 31
Delesse, Achille, 101
Exall, Mr. William, 67
Fraser, Mr. John, 247
Inman, Mr. William, 31
McDonald, Mr. Alexander, 334
Mallet, Mr. Robert, 352, 371, 389
Paterson, Mr. William, 348
Rendle, Mr. William Edgcumbe, 182
Street, Mr. George Edmund, 461
Oil Separator, Novel, 84
Oils, or Mixtures of, used for Lubricating, Analysis of, 111
Old Ireland Improved and made New Ireland, 79
Oligarchical Government in Technical Institutions, 99, 114, 132
Paddington Station, 200
Padlock, Safety, Mr. A. Linley, 137
Palliser Gun Pressure Gauges, 46
Palliser Guns in the United States, 390
Palliser, Sir W., and the War* Office, 164
Palmer’s Shipbuilding and Ironworks, 109
Panama Canal, 198, 309
Paris Electrical Exhibition, 156, 163, 192, 199, 219, 236, 237, 239, 256, 281, 292, 307, 325, 334, 343, 361, 379, 433, 469
Chronograph, M. Bianchi, 433
Chronograph, M. Marcel Deprez, 433
Circuits, Mr. Gulcher, 343
Current Indicator, Mr. Andrews, 361
Duplex Telegraphy, 219
Dynamo-Electro Machine, Professor Jungerson, 236
Dynamo-Electric Machines, Compound and Simple, Mr. Ball, 307
Dynamo Machine, Mr. Andrews, 361
Dynamo Machine, Mr. Edison, 325
Dynamo Machine, Mr. Gulcher, 343
Dynamo Machine, Dr. Antonio Pacinotti, 293
Dynamo Machine and Lamps at, 192
Dynamometer, N. Napoli, 307
Dynamometer, Mr. F. J. Smith, 293
Electric Block and Lock Switch System, Messrs.
Saxby and Farmer, 238
Electric Brake, M. Achard, Eastern Railway of France, 257
Electric Lamps, Efficiency of, Professors Ayrton and Perry, 379
Electric Railway Signals, Mr. Hodgson’s Patent, 239
Electrical Regulator, M. Napoli, 236
Electrical Water Gauge, Mr. Julius Sax, 199
Fire Alarm Apparatus, Exchange Telegraph Company, 469
Gas Engine, Clerk’s, Messrs. Thomson, Sterne, and Co., 278, 281
Hoist, Dr. Hopkinson, 343
Indicator, Mr. C. W. Winter, 293
Magnetic Instrument, Henley’s, 163
Methanometer, Automatic, M. Denis Monnier, 256
Photometer, Dispersion, Professors Ayrton and
Perry, 379
Relay, Mr. Edison, 199
Type Writing Instruments, Mr. F. Higgins, 469
Webermeier. Mr. Edison, 325
Paris Water Supply, 83
Patent Law, 78
Patent Law Reform, 119, 173, 186, 291, 295, 312, 330
Patent-office Fees, 10, 67
Patents, Cheap, 6, 25
Patents, Selected List of American, 18, 36, 54, 72, 90, 108,126, 144, 162, 180, 198, 216, 234, 252, 270, 288, 306, 324, 342, 378, 396, 450, 468
Paterson, Mr. Wm., 348
Peninsular and oriental Steam Navigation Company
The Steamship “ Clyde,” 222, 247
“ Peter the Great,” The Warship, 19
Phosphor Bronze, 384
Photometer, Dispersing, Professors Ayrton and Perry,
Paris Electrical Exhibition, 379
Pipe Dimensions, Standard, 191
Piston, Patent, Mr. Parker, 355
Planing Machine in Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and
Field’s Works, 289, 292
Plate-Bending Machine, Vertical, Messrs. Scriven and
Co., 73, 83
Platforms, Strength of, 399, 438
Plough and Clod Breaker Combined, 102
Plumbers, Registration of, 83
Pneumatic Clocks, 203
Port Clarence Salt Works, 226
Pottery Machinery, Mr. Boulton, 470, 475
Price’s Retort Furnace, 330, 347, 366
Printing Web, Rotary Continuous, Messrs. Hoe and
Co., 129, 130, 131
Projectiles, On the Manufacture of, 276
Propeller, Screw, Mr. F. Sauvage, the Inventor of, 216
Propeller, The Split Boss, 186
Protection, 28
Puddlers’ Wages, 406
Pump, Feed, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, 415
Pump, Steam Cornish, 444, 445
Pumping Engines, Salford Sewage Works, Mr. Arthur
Jacob, 111, 116, 166, 170
Pumps, Mr. James Watson’s Patent, 184
Pumps at Sea, 315, 347
Pump, Steam, Messrs. A. Shanks and Co., 55
Purifier, Electric, Messrs. Osborne and Smith
Fig. 68, p. 2
Queensland Trans-Continental Railway, 244
Rails, Export of, 370
Railway Accidents in America, 371
Railway, Duffield Bank, 47, 48, 79
Railway, The Canada-Pacific, 208
Railway, Lichterfeld Electric, 22, 23
Railway Matters, 7, 21, 43, 61, 75, 97,115, 133, 151,165, 183, 201, 223, 241, 259. 277, 299, 313, 331, 349, 363 385, 403, 421, 435, 457, 477
Railway Projects, Northern, 46
Railway, Proposed New, Northumberland, 249
Railway Rates on Iron and Ironmaking Materials, 64
Railways in the Australias, 171
Railways, Common Road, 27
Railways and the Population, 209
Railways, Portable, Trial of, at Versailles, 74
Railways, Vienna City, 298
Reld“ngSNeweToSwn Halh Wrought Iron Gallery, 3, 4,
5. 25, 60, 79 . . OOR
Recoil, Checking, Experiments on, 2.6
K&““or^oX Ships’Provisions,
Price, 294
Rivers, Conservancy of, 438
Car, on 1Englishl Railways, 420
rng?ure,“hnd\“e, Messrs. Richard Gar-Engine,“compound Stationary, Messrs. R. Garrett En^inf Cylinders, Compound, Messrs. Aveling and En^ue, Horizontal, Messrs. A. Shanks and Co., 40 Ktiv^“o’m& Tramway, Messrs. -Aveling Map o “ySa^OCand Supplant, July 1881 S»g"lnaler6: 119 127,148, 149, 153
Rylatd“sTreon, Steel,^d"ute Trades Directory, 186
St. Gothard Tunnel, The, 164, 460 Arthur
Salford Sewage Works, Pumping Engines, M Arthur
Jacob, 111, 116. 166, 170
^awSchJ"s"’Rickrd Garrett and Sons, 55
Saw,Isteam Cross-cut, Messrs. Pickles and Son, 210
Science and Engineering, 405
Scotch, The Cautious, 46
Screw Propeller, Inventor of the, 2oo
Screwing Machine, Barrow s, 253
Set Rivetting, 295
Severn Tunnel, 214
Sewer Valve, Mr. S. Rolfe, 13
Shanghai River, Removal of the Bar, 399
Sheaf-binders, String, Trial of at Dei by, 119,127, ,
Sheaf-bfnding Machine, Mr. W. A. Wood, 128, 148, 149
Sheaf-binding Reaping Machine, Messrs. Samuelson and Co., 202, 203, 219 .
Shearing Machine, Mr. Geo. E. Sherwin, 210
Sheerness Dockyard, 74
Sheet Mill Machinery, Large, 111
Sheffield District, 12, 31, 49, 67, 85, 103 121, 139, Io7, 175 194, 212, 230, 248, 26o, 283, 301, 319, 337, 3u6, 373’, 392, 410, 428, 446, 464, 484
Shell, Spherical Common, 276
Shell, Spherical Shrapnel, 276 a*
Shipbuilding in France and the Proposed Bounties, 95
Shipbuilding on the Wear in 1881, 470
Ships from Sinking, Preventing, 138, 186
Shoeburyness, Annual Visit to, 73
Shrinking Machinery, Woolwich Arsenal, 274
Siemens Bros., Messrs., Telegraph Works of, at New
Jilksworth Colliery, Durham, 26, 29, 30, 46, 58, 59
Silksworth Colliery, Winding Engines Supplement for July 15th, 1881), 26, 46, 59, 79
Simpson and Co., Messrs., Works of, Pimlico, 327
Sleepers, Pot, Indian State Railways, 33a
Slipways, On, 145, 146 _ Q
Slotting Machine, Vertical, Measrs. Maudslay, Sons and Field’s Works, 292
Small-arms Factory at Enfield, 236
Small-arms, Manufacture of in the U.S., 205
Smoke-consuming Apparatus, Mr. Orvis, 346
Smoke-prevention Exhibition, 451
Smithfield Club Show, The :—
Feed Pump, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, 41o Fore-carriage, Messrs. Ruston and Proctor, 41o Turbine Irrigation Pump, Messrs. Holmes and Son, I
417I
Valve Gear, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, 415
Valve Gear, Mr. Starkey, 415
Smith, Mr. Roger G., Appointed Professor of Archi- .
tecture to University College, 28
Society of Arts, 372
Society, The Chemical:.
Oils or Mixture of Oils Used for Lubricating, Analysis of, Mr. A. H. Allen, 111
Society of Civil Engineers, The American: _ .
Averaging Machine, An Exponent of the Principle of Moments, Mr. S. Auchincloss, 30
Society of Engineers, ill, 402, 443
Iron Roofs, Mr. Arthur T. Walmisley, 2do, 308, 335, 402 • A „<
Sheerness Dockyard, Visit to, 74
Society, Leeds Civil and Mechanical Engineers : , Belt Gearing, Mr. Rhys Jenkins, 308 *
Breweries, On the Arrangement, Construction, ana
Machinery of, Mr. W. Barnes Kinsey, 434
Society, King’s College Engineering :
Marine Engines, Mr. P. A. Low, 309
Society, Liverpool Engineering :
Liverpool Elevated Railway, Mr. A. Holt, 4/6
Tides and Tidal Scour, Mr. Boult, 461
Society The Philosophical, of Washington : Modification of Wheatstone’s Microphone, tec., Alex.
Graham Bell on, 11 . .
Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians, 452
Soda Water Machinery at the Brewing Exhibition, 311, 312
Solent Tunnel, The, 100
South Kensington Museum, 36, 67, 83,102, 144, 162, 180, 198, 216, 228, 245, 270, 288, 306, 342, 396, 414, 417, 468, 488^
Spanish Navy, 111
Speed, Limits to, 317, 361, 417
Stamp Cancelling Tool, 148
Stamp Drop, Messrs. B. and S. Massey, 210
Steam on Common Roads, 225
Steam Navigation on the Thames, Early, 348, 399 Steam Power Users, Self-created Troubles by, 191 Steamer, Screw, Light Draught, for Tributaries of the Amazon, 95
S S. “Abyssinia.” Steel Furnace Front Plate, 365
S.S*. “Clyde,” The P. and O. Steam Navigation Co., 222 247
S.S. “ City of Janeiro,” Compound Engines of, 402, 404, 422, 425
S.S. “City of Rome,” 209, 226, 245
S.S. “Scrvia,” The New Cunard, 365
{Steamships, High Speed, 6 .
Steel, Application of Solid, to Small-arms, Projectiles, and Ordnance Manufacture, 275
Steel Bars, Fractured, 76
Steel Bucket Backs for Dredgers, Mr. W. Bagshawe, 247
Steel Castings, 25, 95, 132
Steel Furnace Front Plate, S.S. “ Abyssinia,” 365
Steel, Influence of Surface Condition on the Strength of, 76
Steel Ingots, Distribution of Elements in, 271
Steel v. Iron for Ships, 169
Steel v. Iron Cargo Ships, 135
Steel Rails, 295
Steel and Steel Rails in the United States, Manufacture of, 271
Steel Trade, Movement in the, 244
Steelyard Weighing Machine, Messrs. H. Pooley and
Son, 310
Steering Gear, Steam and Hand, Mr. C. G. Simey, 483
Stowmarket Explosives Works, 397
Stratford Works of the Great Eastern Railway, 281
Strains on Crane Posts, 258, 294, 29a, 330, 348, 367, 391
399, 426, 439, 452. 472
Street, Mr. George Edmund, 461
Stong’s Feed-water Heater, 132
Stroudley’s Locomotives, 456
“ Swan ” Incandescent Lamp, On the, 229
Swan’s Incandescent Light, Photographic Experiment with, 367
Swan’s Lamps at Earnock Colliery, 164
Systematic Mineralogy, 28, 78
Targets, Self-registering, Dr. Wilson, 113
Tay Bridge, 329, 330, 350, 353, 384, 386, 452, 453, 480
Technical Education in the Wigan District, 247
Tees Shipbuilders and Arbitration, 316
Tees-side, Water Supply of, 28, 190
Telegraph Wires, Improvements in Laying, 365
Telegraph Works of Messrs. Siemens Bros, at New
Charlton, 235
Telegraphy, Submarine, 480
Telephone Transmitter, Mr. Johnson, 200
Telephone Wires over Thoroughfares, 442
Telescope Sight for Guns, 483
Tenders:
Barmouth Waterworks, 402
Brewery Plant, Hythe, 2b9
Derby, Brewery at, 101
Leeds, Messrs. Wright Bros.’ Brewery, 417
Llansamlet, near Swansea, 28
Newhall Water Supply, 46
Sutton Coldfield Sewerage Works, 334
Swing Bridge at Minet-El-Bassal, 255
Walthamstow, 11
Wavertree Tramways, 156
Tenders, Competitive, 243, 258, 294, 312, 456, 459
Tenders, Low, 79
Testing Broken Stone, 484
Testing Machine, Woolwich Arsenal, 274
Theory v. Practice in Chaff Cutters, 24
Thomson, Sterne, and Co., Messrs., Clerk’s Gas
Engine, 278, 281
Tides and Tidal Scour, 461
Torpedo Boats, 187
Town in Darkness, A, 262
Train Resistances, 297
Tramways, Steam, 114
Transit of Venus, 445
Trial Trip of the “ Chancellor,” 255
Trial Trip of the “ Charkieh,” 182
Trial Trip of a Norwegian Steamer, 245
Trial Trips, 471
Tunnel, The Channel, 479
Tunnel, Proposed, Under the Thames, 442
Turbine, The Leffel, 444
Turbines, Efficiency of, 471
Twin Screw Steamer “Tower Hill,” The New, 234
Tyne, On the, as Connected with the History of Engineering, 91
Type Printer, Mr. F. Higgins, 469
United States Government, Examination of Gun
Inventions, 169
United States Navy, The, 459
University College, Bristol, 83
University College, London, 10, 200, 244
University College, London, Lectures at, 255
Valve, Acid, Mr. A. H. Cochrane, 48
Valve Gear, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, 415
Valve Gear, Dobson’s, 12
Valve Gear. Mr. Joy, 401
Valve Gear, Mr. Starkey, 415
Valves, Safety, 25, 79
Vienna Circular Railway, The, 398, 400, 418, 419, 434, 436, 463, 469
Vienna Circular Railway, Central Station, 469, 478
Vienna City Railways, 208, 389
“ Ville de Bougie,’’ Trial Trip of, 308
“Virginian and Valencian,” S.S., Enginesand Boilers of, 185,188, 191, 202, 206, 212, 245
Visits in the Provinces : —
Elswick Ordnance and Engine Works, 37,56, 57, 73,77
Silksworth Colliery, Durham, 26, 29, 30, 46, 58, 59, 79
Stowmarket Explosives Works, 397
Wages Sliding Scale, 100
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 12, 31, 50, 67, 85, 104, 121, 140, 157, 194, 213, 231, 249, 265, 284, 301, 319, 338, 356, 374, 392, 410, 428, 446, 485
Walker Rolling Mill, The, 452
Walthamstow Tenders, 11
Warming Railway Carriages. 391
Watchman’s Detector, Mr. Elliott, 347
Water-meter, Mr. Pocock, 461, 462
Water Supply Works, Ancient, 136
Webermeter, Paris Electrical Exhibition, Mr. Edison, 325
Weighing Apparatus, Portable Locomotive, Ehrhardt’s, 20
West Hartlepool Ironworks, 172
Westinghouse Brake, The, 424
Wheels, Axles, and Axle-boxes for Indian State Railways, 166, 167, 168
Wheels, Combined Road and Rail Truck, 113
Wheels on Shafts, Forcing, 202
Whistles, Signal, Messrs. Smith, Brothers, and Co., 211
Whitworth Scholarships, Session 1880-81, 150
Wind Pressure, 295, 312
Wind Pressures on Railway Structures, 153, 155
Wind upon a Fixed Plane Surface, On the Pressure of 238
Wind and Water Power, 326
Woods, Increase in Strength of Different, by Seasoning, 468
Wool Exhibition, The, Crystal Palace, 19, 169
Woolwich Arsenal, 217
Woolwich Arsenal, Machines used at, in making Guns at, 273, 274, 275
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